No civilization would ever have been possible without a framework of stability, to provide the wherein for the flux of change. Foremost among the stabilizing factors, more enduring than customs, manners and traditions, are the legal systems that regulate our life in the world and our daily affairs with each other.

The aim of totalitarian education has never been to instill convictions but to destroy the capacity to form any.

Opinions are formed in a process of open discussion and public debate, and where no opportunity for the forming of opinions exists, there may be moods -moods of the masses and moods of individuals, the latter no less fickle and unreliable than the former -but no opinion.

Imperialism was born when the ruling class in capitalist production came up against national limits to its economic expansion.

For the possibilities of being different from what one is are infinite. Once one has negated oneself, however, there are no longer any particular choices.

One of the greatest advantages of the totalitarian elites of the twenties and thirties was to turn any statement of fact into a question of motive.

The Third World is not a reality but an ideology.